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James and Cipres: Dancing to Cizeron’s Tune

September 21, 2018 By Beverley 1 Comment

So they’re back. It would be understandable to think Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres of France would want to hang up the skate laces after finally winning their first world medal – a bronze – last season. After all, James is 31 years old, Cipres 27. Pair skating doesn’t get any easier when you get […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alanis Morrissette, Autumn Classic, Gabriella Papadakis, Guillaume Cizeron, John Zimmerman, Morgan Cipres, Sylvia Fontana, Vanessa Cizeron

Virtue and Moir: on Top of the World

February 20, 2018 By Beverley Leave a Comment

To describe the genius of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir is to require an armful of exclamation points. As one fellow skater put it, they are “beyond.” Way back in 2010, when Virtue and Moir won their first Olympic gold medal in Vancouver in their early twenties, the 1980 Olympic champion Robin Cousins was already […]

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Gabriella Papadakis, Guillaume Cizeron, Pyeongchang, Scott Moir, Tessa Virtue

Virtue and Moir: reborn after the Grand Prix Final

January 5, 2018 By 1 Comment

Okay, folks. Listen up. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have no intention of finishing second at the Pyeongchang Olympics, although they finished second at the Grand Prix Final last month. They are not in this race for silver, for second-best, for forgotten footnote. Anybody remember who Sham was? The horse that finished second to Secretariat. […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Gabriella Papadakis, Guillaume Cizeron, Pyeongchang, Scott Moir, Tessa Virtue

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